Coverage outcomes do not repeat: passer rating allowed carries almost no year-to-year signal and none through a team change. What persists is deployment. How often quarterbacks test a defender, how deep, and in what coverage family are stable facts about his role, and tackling is the one rate skill that travels. This panel describes usage and grades nothing.
Every qualifying 2025 linebackers season in gray; Divine Deablo's path from 2022 to 2025 in mint. Up means tested often, right means a downfield role.
Targets per game
2.5
The avoidance axis. How often quarterbacks test him is the most persistent number on this page.
Track spans the middle 90% of 64 qualifying seasons; the notch is the median.
Depth of target faced
5.2
The role axis. Boundary press lives deep, slot and underneath roles live shallow.
Track spans the middle 90% of 64 qualifying seasons; the notch is the median.
Man-coverage share
35%
Share of labeled snaps in man. Compare within a season only; the charting source changed in 2023.
Track spans the middle 90% of 64 qualifying seasons; the notch is the median.
Missed tackle rate
6%
The one coverage-position rate skill that repeats and travels. Lower is better.
Track spans the middle 90% of 64 qualifying seasons; the notch is the median.
Man-coverage share by season
2022
35%
LB median 25%
2023
29%
LB median 40%
2024
40%
LB median 48%
2025
35%
LB median 31%
Outcomes: context, not skill
These are the columns coverage discourse ranks defenders by. None of them repeats year to year at any useful strength, so they are shown for honesty and never scored.
Season
Targets
Yds/target
Comp% allowed
Rating allowed
INTs
PBU rate
Tackles/gm
2025
33
6.4
73%
89.5
0
21%
2.9
2024
37
7.4
78%
115.4
0
5%
2.7
2023
49
5.9
78%
104.8
0
4%
4.3
2022
36
7.0
83%
123.6
0
3%
4.8
2024 / DEF
Position profile
Season splits from pre-aggregated charting views. Missing datasets stay hidden.
Career, season by season
Regular season only. Column definitions live in the glossary and at /explore.
Season
Team
G
2024
LV
1
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